I would like to send a text file as an attachement to Windows outlook from
tru64 Unix.

# cat /tmp/file.txt | uuencode file.txt | mailx -s test someone@xzy.com

This works, however when you view the file in notepad it doesn't look right.

Can anyone help

Regards
M

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MB wrote:
[QUOTE]
> I would like to send a text file as an attachement to Windows outlook from
> tru64 Unix.
>
> # cat /tmp/file.txt | uuencode file.txt | mailx -s test someone@xzy.com
>
> This works, however when you view the file in notepad it doesn't look right.[/QUOT
E]

I guess the problem is the line termination: a single NL character (hex 0A)
is used in UNIX, while Windows uses the two-character CR-LF (hex 0D 0A).
Replace cat by:

perl -pe 's/$/\r/' /tmp/file.txt | uuencode ...

--
Paul Szabo - psz@maths.usyd.edu.au  http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics  university of Sydney   2006  Australia

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And for those non-perl users;

cat /tmp/file.txt | sed -e "s/$/^M/" | uuencode ...

"^M" enter with Ctrl-V, Ctrl-M



Paul Szabo wrote:
quote:

> MB wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> I guess the problem is the line termination: a single NL character (hex 0A
)
> is used in UNIX, while Windows uses the two-character CR-LF (hex 0D 0A).
> Replace cat by:
>
>   PERL -pe 's/$/\r/' /tmp/file.txt | uuencode ...
>

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In news:1d08b916.0312040633.41aa5475@posting.google.com,
MB <mb301@hotmail.com> typed:
quote:

> I would like to send a text file as an attachement to Windows
> outlook from tru64 Unix.
>
> # cat /tmp/file.txt | uuencode file.txt | mailx -s test
> someone@xzy.com
>
> This works, however when you view the file in notepad it doesn't
> look right.
>
> Can anyone help
>
> Regards
> M


uuencode file.wri < file.txt | mailx -s test
This causes the file to open in wordpad instead, wordpad can handle
unix line-termination just fine and the file looks OK.
Hope this helps
Adam

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